William Beeson was a farmer in Madison Township

Beeson
First Name: William
Middle Name/Initial: S.
Date of Death: 03/13/1883
Birth Date: 05/23/1825

Spouse: 1) Catherine House; 2) Sarah Breedlove

Survived By: His two youngest children, William Otto and Charlotte Bertha, are the only survivors of a family of 6. (Four children are deceased: John Henry, Henrietta Mary, Ida Elsina, and Martin Clarence.)

Other: Age 57. Born in Highland County, Ohio; parents: William and Mary Sumner Beeson. Came to Morgan County in 1826. Married Catherine House on April 18, 1849. [Morgan County Marriage Records index gives marriage date as Dec. 31, 1848.]

Father of 6 children, only two of which survived him: William Otto and Charlotte Bertha.

Second wife Sarah Breedlove died of consumption in White Lick Meeting, Morgan County, Indiana.

Quaker and Civil War veteran: Co. B, 117th Regt.; enlisted at the age of 38.

[From the Mooresville Enterprise for Dec. 5, 1872: "The house and barn of William Beeson, situated on his farm one mile east of Mooresville, burned. No insurance."]
Cemetery: Fairfield Friends
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